..."We're going to put the railroads on notice. We're going to say that if their rail lines and their rail yards are used again in a manner that threatens the public safety of the people of our state, where low levels of security are provided to trains loaded with guns, we will seize their rail lines to protect the people of their state."...

A lot of property that the rail lines are on we’re seized with eminent domain, so I say live by the state die by the state. Until everyone realizes lying down with government will get you a wake up call with a knife in your back we will have these types of occurrences.

It wasn't really eminent domain as we think of it currently - it was the gifts of alternating sections of federal land along the RR right of way that were given to the RR's by Congress as incentive for building the railroads. The ROW was part of that deal.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance

Anyone with an FOID card needs to vote against this idiot. I can't believe he has the audacity to talk about this state and its people like we are his people. More Democratic political oligarchy coming to play in IL. Shocking right.

Edited by mic6010, 26 July 2017 - 05:35 PM.

"Living in Chicago, it used to be, 'don't go out at night,' or 'be more careful at night'. Now it's turned into a place where it doesn't matter if it's day or night." - John Hendricks.

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"We're going to put the railroads on notice. We're going to say that if their rail lines and their rail yards are used again in a manner that threatens the public safety of the people of our state, where low levels of security are provided to trains loaded with guns, we will seize their rail lines to protect the people of their state."
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How about cracking the people in Chicago committing all the mayhem? You know.....personal accountability? I'm just sayin'.

My guess is he would be on food stamps if his name wasn't Kennedy. My prediction is that Pritzer has this in the bag so this is just liberal whacked out rhetoric. Funny he had a black panther backing him up.

Chicago is the mistake, not the rest of the state. Believe me I live in the city and these minions of the city believe that demanding the rest of the state to help them for their horrible action and mistakes is their right, BS. I love the city but not the minions.

My guess is he would be on food stamps if his name wasn't Kennedy. My prediction is that Pritzer has this in the bag so this is just liberal whacked out rhetoric. Funny he had a black panther backing him up.

Pritzker isn't dumb enough to say something like "seize their rail lines." Something tells me that the taking of private property to "save the children" wouldn't go over well with any court. He's blowing smoke anyway, and idiots are buying into it.
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Remember when Maxine Waters threatened to nationalize the oil industry?

This is how the left thinks, so seizing a rail yard fits their ideology.

There are men, in all ages, who mean to exercise power usefully; but who mean to exercise it. They mean to govern well; but they mean to govern. They promise to be kind masters; but they mean to be masters.

- Daniel Webster -

Mayor Bloomberg himself has recently turned his attention from oversize soft drinks to gun control, confirming the tendency of the Progressive to go from nanny to tyrant.

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That is because he is the favorite right now and if I was a betting man probably our next Governor. Madigan has bought and sold most of the major media outlets, they will spin the narrative that Rauner has a time machine and caused all of this for Madigan.

That would be something. Buffett would make Kennedy pay dearly for seizing Berkshire-Hathaway assets. You don't just seize assets owned by a billionaire's...well, holding company (Class A shares of BRK currently trade at around $261k, one share comes with lunch with Warren). This is all conjecture, hypothetical, but it's nice to think about Buffett making an example out of some flaming liberal.
If red is for Republicans, blue for Democrats, then Buffett would be considered "green" as in the color of money. He pals around with whomever is going to make him money and the Democrats, especially Obama, have been making him money hand over fist through crony capitalism.
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